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<p><i>Notes on Contributors ix</i></p> <p><i>Chronology of Hegel’s Life and Work xv</i></p> <p>G.W.F. Hegel: An Introduction to His Life and Thought 1<br /><i>Stephen Houlgate</i></p> <p><b>Part I Early Writings 21</b></p> <p>1 Religion, Love, and Law: Hegel’s Early Metaphysics of Morals 23<br /><i>Katerina Deligiorgi</i></p> <p><b>Part II Phenomenology of Spirit 45</b></p> <p>2 The Project of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit 47<br /><i>John Russon</i></p> <p>3 Self-Consciousness, Anti-Cartesianism, and Cognitive Semantics in Hegel’s 1807 Phenomenology 68<br /><i>Kenneth R. Westphal</i></p> <p>4 Spirit as the “Unconditioned” 91<br /><i>Terry Pinkard</i></p> <p><b>Part III Logic 109</b></p> <p>5 Thinking Being: Method in Hegel’s Logic of Being 111<br /><i>Angelica Nuzzo</i></p> <p>6 Essence, Refl exion, and Immediacy in Hegel’s Science of Logic 139<br /><i>Stephen Houlgate</i></p> <p>7 Conceiving 159<br /><i>John W. Burbidge</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Philosophy of Nature 175</b></p> <p>8 Hegel and the Sciences 177<br /><i>Thomas Posch</i></p> <p>9 The Transition to Organics: Hegel’s Idea of Life 203<br /><i>Cinzia Ferrini</i></p> <p><b>Part V Philosophy of Subjective Spirit 225</b></p> <p>10 Hegel’s Solution to the Mind-Body Problem 227<br /><i>Richard Dien Winfield</i></p> <p>11 Hegel’s Philosophy of Language: The Unwritten Volume 243<br /><i>Jere O’Neill Surber</i></p> <p><b>Part VI Philosophy of Right 263</b></p> <p>12 Hegel on the Empty Formalism of Kant’s Categorical Imperative 265<br /><i>Sally Sedgwick</i></p> <p>13 The Idea of a Hegelian ‘Science’ of Society 281<br /><i>Frederick Neuhouser</i></p> <p>14 Hegel’s Political Philosophy 297<br /><i>Allen W. Wood</i></p> <p><b>Part VII Philosophy of History 313</b></p> <p>15 “The Ruling Categories of the World”: The Trinity in Hegel’s Philosophy of History and The Rise and Fall of Peoples 315<br /><i>Robert Bernasconi</i></p> <p>16 Hegel and Ranke: A Re-examination 332<br /><i>Frederick C. Beiser</i></p> <p><b>Part VIII Aesthetics 351</b></p> <p>17 Hegel and the “Historical Deduction” of the Concept of Art 353<br /><i>Allen Speight</i></p> <p>18 Soundings: Hegel on Music 369<br /><i>John Sallis</i></p> <p><b>Part IX Philosophy of Religion 385</b></p> <p>19 Love, Recognition, Spirit: Hegel’s Philosophy of Religion 387<br /><i>Robert R. Williams</i></p> <p>20 Hegel’s Proofs of the Existence of God 414<br /><i>Peter C. Hodgson</i></p> <p><b>Part X History of Philosophy 431</b></p> <p>21 Hegel’s Aristotle: Philosophy and Its Time 433<br /><i>Alfredo Ferrarin</i></p> <p>22 From Kant’s Highest Good to Hegel’s Absolute Knowing 452<br /><i>Michael Baur</i></p> <p><b>Part XI Hegel and Post-Hegelian Thought 475</b></p> <p>23 Hegel and Marx 477<br /><i>Andrew Chitty</i></p> <p>24 Kierkegaard and Hegel on Faith and Knowledge 501<br /><i>Jon Stewart</i></p> <p>25 Thinking of Nothing: Heidegger’s Criticism of Hegel’s Conception of Negativity 519<br /><i>Daniel O. Dahlstrom</i></p> <p>26 Adorno’s Reconception of the Dialectic 537<br /><i>Brian O’Connor</i></p> <p>27 Hegel and Pragmatism 556<br /><i>Robert Stern</i></p> <p>28 The Analytic Neo-Hegelianism of John McDowell and Robert Brandom 576<br /><i>Paul Redding</i></p> <p>29 Différance as Negativity: The Hegelian Remains of Derrida’s Philosophy 594<br /><i>Karin de Boer</i></p> <p>30 You Be My Body for Me: Body, Shape, and Plasticity in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit 611<br /><i>Catherine Malabou and Judith Butler</i></p> <p><i>Index 641</i></p>

<p>“Comprising well written essays by internationally acclaimed Hegel scholars (although many are from North America), this volume makes an excellent and accessible reference both to scholars and students of Hegel and Hegelianism.”  (<i>Religious Studies Review</i>, 1 September 2012)</p> "This superb study brings together Hegel scholars who have penned uniformly excellent articles on all aspects of Hegel's career ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty." (Choice, 1 November 2011) <p> </p>

<b>Stephen Houlgate</b> is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of <i>Hegel, Nietzsche and the Criticism of Metaphysics</i> (1986), <i>An Introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth and History</i> (1991, 2005) and <i>The Opening of Hegel’s Logic: From Being to Infinity</i> (2006), and his edited volumes include <i>Hegel and the Philosophy of Nature</i> (1998), <i>The Hegel Reader</i> (1998), and <i>G.W.F. Hegel: Outlines of the Philosophy of Right</i> (2008). He has served as Vice President and President of the Hegel Society of America and is a former editor of the <i>Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain</i>. <p><b>Michael Baur</b> is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University in New York City, and Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham Law School. He is Secretary of the Hegel Society of America and has published widely on phenomenology, critical theory, philosophy of law, and nineteenth-century continental philosophy, and on thinkers including Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Aristotle, and Aquinas.</p>

G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) is one of the most important and sophisticated modern thinkers, but only now are his substantial contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, political philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy of history, and philosophy of religion gaining the recognition they deserve. <p>This companion is the first collection of essays to do justice to the extraordinary richness and diversity of Hegel's philosophy. Specially commissioned essays from international scholars cover all the main areas of Hegel's mature thought, as well as his influence on significant thinkers, such as Heidegger, Adorno, Derrida, and McDowell. More than just an overview of Hegel's work, the essays in this volume draw on the most up-to-date research to offer new perspectives on his thought.</p> <p>With insights for students and specialists alike, <i>A Companion to Hegel</i> provides a valuable understanding of the work of a subtle and challenging philosopher of the natural and the human world.</p>

"Hegel is now recognized once again as having not only historical but contemporary importance. This collection of high-quality essays by some of the world's finest Hegel scholars provides a rich variety of perspectives from which to survey his philosophy and its impact."<br /> —<b>Paul Franks</b>, University of Toronto <p>"Apart from his two central works – the <i>Phenomenology of Spirit</i> and the <i>Science of Logic</i> – Hegel's philosophy covers a vast range: political philosophy; aesthetics; the philosophy of history; and the philosophy of religion. Apart from these, any student of Hegel will want to understand his relation Marx, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Adorno, Derrida, pragmatism, contemporary analytic philosophy, and his conception of embodiment. The thirty essays in Houlgate and Baur's <i>Companion</i> provide a veritable feast, covering all these topics and more. Every serious student of Hegel will want this volume on their bookshelf. "<br /> —<b>J.M. Bernstein</b>, New School for Social Research</p>

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